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SPRING IS HERE "officially" IN CORNWALL
magnolias flowering in numbers down here signal that spring has arrived in Cornwall. The earliest they have ever flowered. Caerhays Castle, famous for magnolias, has today declared Cornwall is open for the spring...spring has come today. 
Must admit today at times has felt like that
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Just as well we're holidaying in Cornwall earlier than usual this year, otherwise there'd be nothing left to see ... well, flowers that is
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Also some flowering blossom is breaking out a month early.
Looking at my lawns today they are so long it looks like firing up the mower shortly. My Magnolia buds are all furry ready to burst so I am hoping its cold
enough to hold them back a while.
I don't really start gardening outside here till March but who knows this year..
Wow magnolias in flower already, I saw a bank of lily of the valley today in Sussex.
What about us Verd?
I'll wait for spring to make it's usual appearance some time in June....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It was spring to the eyes, ears and nose out there today.
But thermal underwear required
In the sticks near Peterborough
We've got magnolias out in Sunny Surrey .....but with frosts forecast all week they will be brown mush by the weekend
Crocus blooms poking out up here in Scotland. A few Snowdrops also. Bushes are all starting to bud. It's not Spring though, just a prelude to our second Winter.